In my post Creativity for the Fun of It, I maintained that it’s fine for Christians to write and publish works that are just for fun, and that God’s glory shines through such things because God is the creator of everything, not just some limited subset that we define as sacred. As that post has…
Through my company Energion Publications I publish a book by Nick May, titled Megabelt. (He has another book on the way, not with Energion, but I’ll provide news of that later.) Now Nick is a Christian young man, deeply involved in his local church. But he can get just a bit challenging to some people’s…
Way of Life Literature has a rant on science fiction that is really quite odd and rather selective. It appears that science fiction is the product of evolutionary thinking and that most of its key authors were atheists, and of course, evolutionists. I am both a Christian and a fan of science fiction, having even…
I don’t read Dan Brown, not because I don’t like his writing (which I’ve never read), but because I don’t really enjoy conspiracy theory novels as a rule. Now there’s a clumsy sentence, such as the author of this article in the Telegraph would dislike. The examples given are generally not great writing–from my perspective–but…
I’m trying to get back to this blog, but paying work continues to intervene, and fiction writing is not paying work for me, nor is reviewing or commenting on fiction. I will get back to posting and even have some plans for some of my material elsewhere. That said, this morning I found a link…
I recall in general terms when I first saw an ad by an auto manufacturer that used a computer theme for selecting the vehicle. I thought at the time that the PC had come of age. A few years before I had been told by a computer dealer that he didn’t advertise on TV because…
I’m almost afraid to write about how one can learn and teach from stories, because I think a piece of literature requires only one justification–that somebody wants to read it. Come to think of it, it may need only that someone enjoys writing it. I’m an extreme anti-snob in literature. I enjoy some very light…
This post uses the phrase “prescriptivist blowhards,” which I wish I had coined, about this prescriptive nonsense, which surely deserved it. The meanings of words are determined by the way in which they are used. Syntax is determined by the way people actually write and talk. Prescriptive grammarians can yell and talk all they want,…
Yesterday I wrote about my preferences in literature, being careful to note how these were my preferences and not some sort of objective standard for what is good and what is bad literature. Amongst other things I said this: That means that there’s no objective “good book” and “bad book” for the most part. There…
I’m not a reader of the Harry Potter series, but I really like this note from Laura of Pursuing Holiness. (I worked together with Laura in forming the Philophronos Blogroll which can be seen on my threads blog. This is my “fun” blog.) To a large extent I think the difference in people’s reactions to…
